Emma presents The Emma Barnett Show on BBC Radio 5 Live Monday to Thursday 10am-1pm - in which she interviews the key figures shaping our times - from the Prime Minister through to the philanthropist Melinda Gates; breaks news; holds power to account; takes her listeners to places they normally can’t access; covers surprising stories and above all, has a good laugh and chinwag with her brilliantly honest audience. The programme won Gold at the Arias, the Radio Academy Awards 2018, for Best News Coverage of real-life stories and Emma was named Radio Broadcaster of the Year 2018 by the Broadcasting Press Guild and Broadcaster of the Year 2017 by the Political Studies Association.

Emma regularly hosts Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 and the late night version of the show too. She is the youngest person in the programme’s long history to occupy the presenter’s chair.

​On TV she presents the weekend debate programme on BBC One, Sunday Morning Live, makes films for The One Show and has hosted The Andrew Marr Show, Newsnight, Politics Live, Sky News’s The Pledge and ITV’s After The News series.

She makes documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service - in which she has investigated a wide range of subjects including: the march of military women to the front line; the personal hypocrisy within religion; the rise of mindfulness and whether we have a right to be forgotten in the digital age.

Columnist

Speaker, chair & host

Emma writes a weekly column for The Sunday Times Magazine. Entitled Tough Love, she advises readers who come to her with their deepest problems - from difficult children to even worse partners. As the title suggests, she doesn’t mince her words. She also writes columns for the main section of The Sunday Times and a range of magazines - including the Radio Times and Harper’s Bazaar.​Before joining The Sunday Times, Emma worked for Telegraph for seven years - initially as the paper’s first Digital Media Editor covering technology and media, and then as its Women’s Editor - which saw her create, launch and edit the paper’s agenda-setting women’s section - described by the British Press Awards as the “go-to site for young women in Britain”.

Emma loves interviewing people before a live audience and chairing events. She has done both for a wide range of organisations including: the Hay Festival; the Radio Times Festival; The Holocaust Educational Trust; Tech Crunch Moscow; the Monaco Media Forum; PR Week Global awards; Grazia live events; Ad Week; the 30 Club; Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival; the Cheltenham Literature Festival and Plan UK. She has also enjoyed delivering keynote speeches at events, schools, universities and hosting industry award ceremonies.

Author

Patron

In 2019 Emma will publish her first book, Period (working title). At a time when women around the world are raising their voices in the fight for equality, there is still a societal taboo around which remains a deafening silence: periods. Inspired by the major reaction she received after announcing she was menstruating while debating on Sky News and her own recent diagnosis with endometriosis, a debilitating menstrual condition, Emma aims to bust the period taboo wide open, once and for all, boldly and irreverently. She looks into the history of myths and misconceptions about menstruation; tells women’s untold stories and aims to instill a sense of period pride in both women and men.

Emma is a patron of Smartworks, a charity which helps economically disadvantaged women get back into the workplace through interview training and having the right outfit to make the best first impression. She has been a volunteer dresser for more than a decade - helping women discover the best outfit to land the job - and in 2017 was very proud to become one of the charity’s patrons.

Emma also supports Endometriosis UK, a charity dedicated to helping women suffering from endo navigate each day and raising money for much-needed research into this incurable disease.